My Five Year Old

This morning being Sunday, me being exhausted and Paul working, I tried to stay in bed for as long as possible. My three kids were all playing in the playroom and I could hear them in my half asleep state. Linnie comes into the room with a wet diaper semi wrapped up and tells me Blake had a wet diaper so she changed it. Yes that is correct, my five year old changed my 2 year old's diaper. Can you believe it? I sure couldn't and she did a good job, I only had to semi tighten it. Hopefully she's getting some practice in for when the new baby comes! I seriously have the best kids ever!

Over the Top at the Circus

Yesterday, we went to the circus. Lizzie and Linnie saw it on TV and really wanted to go. It worked out that I got good tickets for really cheap so Paul took the day off (I had the day off due to Parent Teacher Conferences this week). Last time everything was so chaotic that we missed a lot of the extras to the show. This time we made it to see the animals before hand...

Blake is obsessed with elephants. He got a Diego figure set for his birthday that is a Diego and his elephant. He loves it and apparently loves elephants. He just kept yelling and pointing "Elephant" the whole time. He was in heaven.

The kids weren't too impressed with the tigers though...

And then we got to see the preshow up on the stage. It was cool being able to go right up close and see all the acts. Blake had a rough time towards the end. He had to go without a nap (yes it was insane!) and was so tired. This was before the exhaustion set in...
Lizzie and Linnie enjoyed it much more this time! They just sat watching never getting restless; I was surprised.

Paul and I both thought the show was a lot more entertaining this time, plus it was really long, about 2 1/2 hours. We had a ton of fun!

Flashback Friday: The Circus

Today, since we went to the circus, I decided to post pictures from the last time we went to the circus 2 years ago. At this time, Blake was just a baby (he was about 4-5 weeks old) and the girls were 3. Lizzie and Linnie threw up on the way over there all over themselves. Luckily I didn't get anything on me and I had gone shopping for them the day before and had some jeans and sweatshirts in the car. I had already paid for the tickets so there was no way we were missing it (I'm mean I know) and they were so excited to go. We ended up staying for most of the show and they were really good sports and really enjoyed it despite being sick.

More Changes!

We have officially taken our house off the market! We called our Realtor yesterday and within 30 minutes the key box and sign were gone (I think he might have been done too). Looks like we are here to stay.

Making Some Changes

Paul and I were debating when to post this and we're waiting a couple of weeks to let the news settle into our brains. But that was before we told two excited 5-year olds, who tell everyone they know! By now they probably told the neighbor kids and all the kids at school, and yesterday their primary class was told and then everyone else at church. So we decided to spill the beans a little early (we hinted at it on our flash back friday)... We're having a baby! He/she is due around the end of April or beginning of May ( I'm around 9 weeks along give or take.). I will only have to miss about 6 weeks of work then I get the summer off so the timing couldn't be better. I have my doctors appointment in a week and half so I'll know more then. We are very excited about this change (and are curious to see who actually reads our blog and will find out this little tid bit of information :) ) and happy to share it with all our favorite people!

Flashback Fridays

This week brought back some memories I wanted to share.

Change of Scenery

Today, I decided to change up the blog to match my Hawaii pictures. Can you tell I'm in a Hawaiian kind of mood? I was designing my scrapbook pages and decided to make a background and banner to go with the blog... What do ya think?

Hawaii (yes finally)!

Ok this took forever but I've been waiting to get the rest of my pictures before posting...

We spent the last week of July on the fantastic island of Oahu in Hawaii and loved every minute. Since I took a billion pictures (Click Here to See them ALL)(well just 300 if you count only the ones I didn't delete and Scott and Jenny's pictures) I figured I'd just give highlights of all the fun we had. These are my top 10 favorite things we did with pictures (in no particular order).

1. Waikiki- The first night we decided to stay on our own in a nice hotel. I really wanted one on the beach in the main area. We definately got that. Our view was amazing and we had such a great time. And of course there was The Beach... need I say more. It was amazing to be able to lay out in the sun and never worry where my kids were (since they were in California with my parents :) ).

2. The Poly Cultural Center- who knew learning could be fun?

The shows were hilarious and very entertaining. We got to see a samoan climb a palm tree.

Plus we got a luau and show at night. It was very cool.
The Luau...

Jenny and I loved the pina coladas... yum

3. Snorkling in Hunama Bay- Unfortunately we did not have much time. After watching the 9 minute video on how "NOT TO STEP ON THE CORAL" we only had about an hour or so to snorkel but it was very cool.

A little surreal to be so close to the coral with the waves crashing down on you but all good. My parents lent us their underwater camera and we had a blast taking pictures. Unfortunately you can't tell what you are shooting so you basically point it and click. Lots of the pictures didn't turn out at all. But this is what we got. The ones of Jenny didn't quite work out...

4. Golfing- Paul goes all the time with Scott but us girls never get to go so we decided to join them! Honestly, we were curious to see what the fuss was about but we really had a blast driving those golf carts around. It was awesome!
5. Pearl Harbor- Again, who knew educational stuff would be vacation worthy? We spent way more time here than we planned but it was amazing. I had no idea some of the stuff that happened. Plus we got some fun pictures!

We listened to the story of Pearl Harbor on headphones... Aren't we the coolest!

Jenny and I...

Drivin' the submarine...

The big guns...

6. Pipeline- You always see pipeline in movies so it was fun to see it. What a beautiful beach!

7. Sunset Beach- Since it was called sunset Beach, Paul just had to see it at sunset and get a picture of it. Isn't it pretty?

Scott had his own pose in front of the sunset...

Paul climbing a palm tree...

8. Our Beach at Bellows- Since Scott is in the military, we got to stay on Bellows Airforce Base. Not only was it cheap but the beach wasn't so touristy (Is that a word?). We had the best time!
9. Dinner Cruise- Jenny and I really wanted to do the Dinner Cruise so after some convincing the boys agreed and it was fun! We all got into it and enjoyed ourselves the last night we were there.

It was so windy but beautiful. Honolulu/Waikiki is behind us.

10. Shark's Cove- It was raining like crazy but in between, it was cool. We saw no sharks which was very disappointing but it was really cool. There was tons of people snorkling which seemed a bit insane to me. Who wants to snorkle (I'm sure you look like a fish of some sorts to a shark) for sharks... hmmm smart people...

Isn't this just precious? I don't think they even knew what they were doing.

11. The Hike to The Lighthouse- Now this did not make my top 10 since it made me get all sweaty and was just a whole lot of stairs (I swear it was like the stairmaster from Hell!) but we got some cool pictures so I included it!

A few of the stairs... Aren't they awful?


But the view was amazing!

Hawaii was amazing!! I can't wait to go back... maybe next year (hint hint Paul)!